A service has been streamed online to remember the Scottish Italians killed in a World War Two tragedy. They were among hundreds of internees who died when the Arandora Star was torpedoed on 2 July 1940. A mass was held at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Glasgow and streamed live as it is not open to the […]
A team of underwater archaeologists has pieced together information from declassified government documents and a shipwrecked World War II-era naval vessel to understand the secret role played by one of the most historic U.S. aircraft carriers: the USS Independence. The Independence (CVL 22) was one of 90 vessels assigned to Operation Crossroads — the atomic bomb […]
The U.S. Navy, in partnership with the Indonesian Navy, is planning to dive later this month to the sunken USS Houston, a World War II-era shipwreck, according to Navy officials. The mission’s purpose is to assess the vessel’s condition and allow salvage and rescue divers to train at a real shipwreck site. U.S. and Indonesian Navy divers […]
An ornate four-wheeled chariot of iron, bronze and wood that archaeologists think was drawn by a team of horses in processions through Pompeii almost 2,000 years ago has been unearthed during excavations of a wealthy Roman villa just north of the ancient city’s walls. Archaeologists discovered the elaborate chariot, which still has imprints of organic materials such […]
There has been a tendency to see the writings as mere decoration, says UK academic who translated them for book Ancient Egyptian texts written on rock faces and papyri are being brought together for the general reader for the first time after a Cambridge academic translated the hieroglyphic writings into modern English. Until now few […]
3 March 1939: The archeologist discovered the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun Mr. Howard Carter, the Egyptologist, was born at Swaffham, in Norfolk, in 1873. Because of his poor health when a boy he was educated privately. When seventeen years of age he obtained a post as draughtsman on the staff of the Egypt Exploration Fund, […]
When archaeologists found a tunnel under Mexico’s ‘birthplace of the gods’, they could only dream of the riches they would discover. Now its wonders – from jewel-eyed figures to necklaces of human teeth – are being revealed to the world In 2003, a tunnel was discovered beneath the Feathered Serpent pyramid in the ruins of […]
Scientists using a new technique have uncovered the colorful and once-hidden scenes in paintings of the ancient Etruscans, a group of people who flourished on the Italian peninsula around 2,500 years ago at a time before Rome became powerful. For instance, they found new details in a painting from the “Tomb of the Monkey” and […]
The illustration doesn’t match any modern goose species. Nearly five millennia ago, an artist inked an incredibly detailed painting of geese in the tomb of an Egyptian vizier and his wife. This “Mona Lisa” of ancient Egypt may depict a previously unknown and now extinct species of goose, a new analysis suggests. The 4,600-year-old painting, known as […]
Two-metre-long painting in Western Australia dated by analysing wasp nests and is the oldest work still in its original place Scientists have confirmed that a painting of a kangaroo in a sandstone rock shelter in Western Australia’s remote Kimberley region is about 17,300 years old, making it the oldest known rock art in Australia. […]
